tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post348602477753665542..comments2024-03-29T00:32:33.920-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: NaturallyJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-71342384759314668972021-03-11T20:23:26.473-05:002021-03-11T20:23:26.473-05:00Honeymoon In Hell is a great collection. If memory...<i>Honeymoon In Hell</i> is a great collection. If memory serves, it also has what may be the best story ever written about making a deal with the Devil (and one of the best stories ever written about actually making the perfect wish) and another wonderful and terrible short-short that sets up a convoluted premise about a were-buck solely as an excuse for making a series of indelible and awful puns.<br /><br />Brown really was one of the best.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-62585192127178057582021-03-10T09:11:38.049-05:002021-03-10T09:11:38.049-05:00I remember Brown from both Arena and one of my fav...I remember Brown from both Arena and one of my favorite stories of all time: Placet is a Crazy Place. I had to reread that one last night. Good stuff!Will Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379173017869751088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-29481814029427806482021-03-10T00:13:20.986-05:002021-03-10T00:13:20.986-05:00Weird coincidence: this morning I picked up a sci-...Weird coincidence: this morning I picked up a sci-fi compilation that was my dad's, that I must've read through a hundred times as a kid but haven't cracked open in maybe two decades.<br /><br />Looked through the contents just now and there on p153: "Knock" by Frederic Brown. Shane Cubishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439632627554929290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-66355798545405487132021-03-09T10:58:42.251-05:002021-03-09T10:58:42.251-05:00It's certainly a knock-off, but you're exa...It's certainly a knock-off, but you're exaggerating the similarities enormously. The enemy Roller isn't particularly stronger or tougher than Our Hero, they're separated by a force field that prevents them from fighting directly until they work out how to get around it, and that winds up being to knock yourself unconscious, fall through the barrier, and wake up just in time to skewer your opponent with a flint knife. No cannons, no wrestling, and unlike Trek Our Hero isn't given a chance to ask for the aliens to be shown mercy, instead he wakes up back in the space fleet he started in and is informed the entire Roller fleet just exploded from the opening volley. It's a very, very different story and has a much less enlightened moral than the Trek episode does.Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-36434507739114599342021-03-08T21:37:02.613-05:002021-03-08T21:37:02.613-05:00I know the original Eberron Campaign Setting had a...I know the original Eberron Campaign Setting had an "Appendix N" style movie list.Beorichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05179135838206052198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-23830415965281850022021-03-08T19:21:13.648-05:002021-03-08T19:21:13.648-05:00And Brown made it look so easy. What a writer!
T...And Brown made it look so easy. What a writer!<br /><br />Thanks for the post.John E. Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424841103552780730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-13774190507642039042021-03-08T18:42:03.621-05:002021-03-08T18:42:03.621-05:00"...and it might have been inspired by Brown&..."...and it might have been inspired by Brown's 1944 short story, also entitled "Arena..."<br /><br />Might have been? Have you read the story? It's practically a cut-and-paste job, from the motives of the cosmic aliens, to the way the hero eventually defeats the stronger, tougher antagonist. No might have been about it.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13467431641317104916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-29994704807408963762021-03-08T17:37:53.156-05:002021-03-08T17:37:53.156-05:00oh my god, I had no idea Brown did SF. I have read...oh my god, I had no idea Brown did SF. I have read a ton of his mysteries. (I know you have been getting Weird Tales from the internet archive, but look for his work in the mystery pulps too)Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09872338936249305301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-79260715775850079282021-03-08T15:42:09.767-05:002021-03-08T15:42:09.767-05:00Absolutely! In that respect, I think AD&D is, ...Absolutely! In that respect, I think <i>AD&D</i> is, after a fashion, a setting, in as much as it represents Gary's own peculiar take on the game. James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-36221979762095345202021-03-08T15:25:18.547-05:002021-03-08T15:25:18.547-05:00I appreciate the Arcana-Unearthing here. The older...I appreciate the Arcana-Unearthing here. The older I get (7th grade in 1984) the more I can savor the heady region between Classic and Vintage. Thanks.HuckSawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13381444935904172318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-35321750621477803172021-03-08T14:36:28.755-05:002021-03-08T14:36:28.755-05:00I've long felt Appendix N is best applied to s...I've long felt Appendix N is best applied to settings. An Appendix N for Dark Sun and/or Ravenloft would certainly look different from each other and from the actual Appendix N.Ruprechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00139664977453444000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-61918768342279374012021-03-08T14:29:07.270-05:002021-03-08T14:29:07.270-05:00“And may you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy...“And may you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed cashing the checks for them!”<br /><br />Fredric Brown 1951. So ends his introduction to his first collection “Space On My Hands”Harun Musho'dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12557785368640776659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-70411707981344364632021-03-08T11:28:38.451-05:002021-03-08T11:28:38.451-05:00I met Brown in 7th grande, his "Sentry" ...I met Brown in 7th grande, his "Sentry" was quote in its entirety as the sample for SF in my literature book.<br />I really loved it.artikidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17474295473142339717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-66936682025508041292021-03-08T11:15:31.177-05:002021-03-08T11:15:31.177-05:00Just found it online... It is brief! But very funn...Just found it online... It is brief! But very funny too. ThanksAndromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11676842057897482010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-41255034440645797392021-03-08T10:40:52.220-05:002021-03-08T10:40:52.220-05:00Now I feel really old. Brown's Arena was requ...Now I feel really old. Brown's Arena was required reading in 7th grade English for me - and that was 1978, so maybe not forgotten as soon as you think. Then again, our school's non-science books were pretty dated, like Bullard of the Space Patrol, for ex.Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com